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New York Times, Tuesday, October 23, 2001

Author:
Leonard Williams
Editor:
Will Shortz
56-Down : Sling missile
TotalDebutLatest
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Leonard Williams

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 39 Missing: {JQXZ} This is the debut puzzle for Mr. Williams. Tuesday freshness: 67%
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© 2001, The New York Times10/23/1 ( No. 18,977 )
Across
1
Prefix with god : DEMI
5
Start of a diary entry : DEAR
9
Bona ___ : FIDES
14
Author Turgenev : IVAN
15
French clergyman : ABBE
16
Bonehead : IDIOT
17
Witty Bennett : CERF
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No longer valid : VOID
19
Take in again : RESEE
20
Immortality, of a sort : ENDURINGFAME
23
Laid, as a floor : TILED
24
Aborigine of Japan : AINU
25
Station launched in 1986 : MIR
28
Treaty's aim : LASTINGPEACE
31
Docs united: Abbr. : AMA
34
People shoot it for fun : POOL
35
Parched : ARID
36
Lord's estate : DEMESNE
38
Very : AWFULLY
41
Flamboyance : ELAN
42
Rows : OARS
43
Reply to a captain : AYE
44
What the devout have : ABIDINGFAITH
49
Linkup of several PC's : LAN
50
Nine, in Nantes : NEUF
51
Slipknot loop : NOOSE
54
Stamina : STAYINGPOWER
57
Ill will : SPITE
60
Like a poor tennis player, frequently : ACED
61
Lawn mower maker : TORO
62
One of the Carpenters : KAREN
63
Close : NEAR
64
Idle of the Python troupe : ERIC
65
Skillful : ADEPT
66
Pseudosophisticated : ARTY
67
Intolerable smell : REEK
Down
1
They're spotted in casinos : DICE
2
100-meter hurdles, for one : EVENT
3
___ Gras : MARDI
4
Completely : INFULL
5
College near Charlotte : DAVIDSON
6
Coal-black : EBON
7
Mother of John Quincy : ABIGAIL
8
Freshwater minnow : REDFIN
9
Solidify, as plans : FIRMUP
10
___ fixe : IDEE
11
Belittle, slangily : DIS
12
Help wanted abbr. : EOE
13
___-Foy, Que. : STE
21
Harvests : REAPS
22
Filmmaker Lee : ANG
25
Actress Gibbs : MARLA
26
How to respond to an affront : ICILY
27
Color anew : REDYE
29
Water temperature tester : TOE
30
Somme water : EAU
31
"Let's Make ___" : ADEAL
32
Kind of toast : MELBA
33
With full force : AMAIN
37
Come to a halt : END
38
Tiny battery : AAA
39
Squeeze out, as a mop : WRINGDRY
40
Lens setting : FSTOP
42
Cop : OFFICER
45
It can be malicious : INTENT
46
Teachers' org. : NEA
47
Venezuela neighbor : GUYANA
48
Owl : HOOTER
52
Talked impolitely : SWORE
53
Weird : EERIE
54
Dance instructor's call : STEP
55
Well-groomed : NEAT
56
Sling missile : ROCK
57
Jamaican music : SKA
58
Rocket launch site : PAD
59
Wrath : IRE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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